When the chickens come home to roost, deny, deny, deny. That is how James Clapper is handling the charges that the letter signed by 51 retired intelligence community leaders influenced the election.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, The Washington Examiner<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n I<\/span>n case anyone is wondering who was responsible for the idea that the Hunter Biden laptop story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper<\/a> assures us it was not<\/i> the 51 retired intelligence community leaders who penned the letter which said it was. Instead, it was the media who mischaracterized their words.<\/strong><\/p>\n Clapper\u2019s signature topped the list of prominent former government officials willing to stake their reputations on the infamous letter that was written to sow doubt about a story that, if it had not been suppressed, could arguably have changed the result of the 2020 presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the major problems with that statement is that in August on 2017, James Clapper was hired by CNN as a national security analyst. He was the media he is accusing of mischaracterizing his words.<\/p>\n The article notes:<\/p>\n Specifically, Clapper, who is best known for lying to Congress<\/a> <\/u> in 2013 about the National Security Agency\u2019s collection of Americans\u2019 telephone records and for his role in perpetuating the Russian collusion hoax, blamed Politico<\/i> for \u201cdeliberately distorting\u201d their letter in an October 2020 piece titled<\/a> <\/u>, \u201cHunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n “There was message distortion. All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation,\u201d Clapper told Washington Post<\/a> <\/i>\u201cfact checker\u201d Glenn Kessler. \u201cPolitico<\/i> deliberately distorted what we said. It was clear in paragraph five.”<\/strong><\/p>\n